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I don't know what to write. Catching up I see that N and P wrote more and more detailed than I did. It's not so much that I'm overcome by my reaction to the trip, as that I haven't yet (and may not) figured it out. Writing is almost always a slow analytical process for me, and so I didn't really indulge in it while there was good to be done. Now, in retrospect, I clearly have a lot to think about, even after talking about the Waveland stuff for a significant period of the trip home. I think that New Orleans gave me a different set of revelations from the others, and certainly Pax and I didn't have the same jarring contrast with prior experience of the area that N did, so I still haven't really dug into much of that.

I'm not sure there's any kind of useful conclusion or set of conclusions to be drawn from my experience, it may well just be of the "huh, that sure was a lot of stuff" kind.

I should reiterate new_man's comments, at least: this disaster is not over. FEMA declared the emergency resolved when we arrived in Waveland (that is, at the same time as we arrived), but there's a *lot* still to do, and not a lot of people paying attention. Go if you can. We may still go back.